The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-13
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the Panama canal would be finished in 1889.
Ar Highmore, Dakota, Saturday after
noon, the temperature was $50 in the shade.
CoNvICTs in Massachusetts refuse to eat
baked beans and have become ifsubordinate.
A NITRo-GLYCERINE explosion at Frieburg,
SaXony, killed andinjured thirteen persons.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Battenburg has
again declined to be reelected ruler of Bull
garia.
THE President has appointed Eugene
Semple to be governor of Washington Ter
ritory.
THE grand jury at Augusta, Me-. reported
eighty-four indictments against liquor
sellers
REV. E. G.. TAYLOR. prominent Baptist
preacher and Sunday-school worker, died in
Buffalo Sunday.
THE Czarina of Russia is suffering from
nervous depression in consequence of the
assassination scare.
A FORMIDABLE strike of men employed in
the building trades began in New York and
Brooklyn Thursday.
A FEATURE of the election for supreme
court Judge in Wisconsin was the attempt
of many women to vote.
THE sealing steamer Eagle" reported
| lost with 200 lives last week. has arrived
safely at st. John, N. F.
The Chicago Farmers ReUiep says COM
| plants of drouth now come from all parts
of the winter wheat belt.
PRINCE MoNTLERET, who died recently,
| left his entire fortune, estimated at SO, 500,-
600, to the Queen of Italy.
BLAIR's block at West Brookfeld, Mass.
was burned last week, involving loss of
nearly $4,000 Incendiary.
THE President has appointed Benton J.
| Hall of Iowa to be commissioner of patents,
vice NJ. V. b. Montgomery. resigned
| THE town of Kuty, in Austrian Galicia,
has been almost completely destroyed by
fire. The fire was of incendiary origin.
THE murdered girl at Railway, n. j., has
not been satisfactorily identified yet de-
spite the vigorous efforts in that direction.
Miss CATHERINE WOLFE, recently de-
ceased, left her magnificent art collection to
the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York.
A GREAT anti-coercion demonstration was
held in London Monday, which was adj
dressed by Gladstone and other liberal
leaders.
Hon. SIMEON B. CHITTENDES of Brooklyn
has made provision for the erection of a new
library building for Yale College, to cost
100000.
THIRTY-THREE new hotels are to be
erected in Los Angeles county, Cal, this
season. They will cost from $4,000 to
S600,0OO each.
lHE uTOUUH III 1DdnY COunI1eS In Texas
still continues. No rain had fallen for
months until Saturday, when there was a
moderate shower.
THE bark Edorado," from Seattle, w.
T., to San Francisco, coal laden, has foun-
dered at sea and all on board have been lost
except two seamen.
Two Indiana men of wealth blew out the
gas in their room in a Chicago hotel. One
died and the other is still suffering from the
resulting inhalation.
THERE is every indication that the strike
of carpenters in Chicago will be protracted
one and will paralyZe all building opera
tons in that city this year.
THE village of Cochecton, n. Y, is flooded
for the fourth time this year by the overflow
of the Delaware River. Many buildings are
inundated to the depth of three feet.
IT is reported that another attempt to
murder the Gar was made in st. Peters,
burg last Wednesday, and that student
and woman were arrested who were car
| rying bombs
BISMARCK is said to be angry with the
Emperor because the latter prefers the mod
crate plans of Stakeholder Hohenloke for
governing Alsace-Lorraine to Bismarck's
stringent measures.
THE interstate commerce commission has
appointed E. l.. Pugh of Alabama to a clerk
ship under that commission. Mr.. Pugh is a
son of Senator Pugh This is the first ap-
pointment made by the commission.
THE interstate commerce law will have
great effect on st. John trade, changing its
channel to the United States from the New
| Brunswick railway to the International line
of steamers, not affected by the law.
MINNEAPoLIs millers have begun to ship
flour to New Orleans by water. If this ex-
pedient fails, they say that they will have
to go out of business, as the interstate law
shuts them out of the markets by rail
AT Custer, Mich, the Rowland clothes
pin factory, owned by Aldrich & Brayman,
was burned Thursday night. The loss is
$4,000. This was the largest clothespin
factory in the world. Its average daily out
put was 10000 pins.
LOUIS GAUDIN is dead at Woonsocket,
r. l., aged one hundred nine years. His
mother was a Canadian Indian and lived to
the advanced age of one hundred eight,
while his wife died two years ago at the age
of one hundred two.
MICHIGAN prohibitionists claim that
fraudulent votes were cast in Bessemer
| county against the amendment: and if the
whole county returns be thrown out for this
reason they say the state will show bare
majority for the amendment.
RECORDER TRoTTER of Washington still
lies in precarious condition, and danger
exists that he may fall into quick con-
SUMPTION" the strain on his lungs from the
attack of typhoid pneumonia in each lobe
being so great AZ nearly TO disintegrate them.
FIFTY-sIX conductors, brakemen, engineers
and firemen of the Pan Handle railway are
under arrest for the alleged stealing of half
million dollars worth of freight and other
property from trains during the past two or
three years. Scores of other persons are
implicated
THE President has appointed, as commits
sioners to investigate the affairs of the
Pacific railroad, under the act passed by the
last congress, Robert e. Pattison of Penn
sylvania, e. Ellery Anderson of New York
and David Lttler of Illinois. Mr.. Littler is
a republican.
Mrs. EMMoNs, the eccentric wife of Pro-
fessor Emmons of Washington has been or
dered to leave the Viaduct Hotel, near Bal
timore, because her odd ways annoy the
other guests She now lies abed and re-
fuses to go. The manager threatens to take
her ont by force.
A SPECIAL from Fort Gibson on Monday
says Mr.. Blaine passed an easy night. In the
morning he appeared very much refreshed
and ate hearty breakfast. Heretofore his
stomach refused anything solid. His res
piration and temperature are normal. DIR.
Byrn considers all danger now passed.
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